Super easy tealight holders made with cement, using plastic wrap As A Mold. I have gotten away from having candles in my home over the years because I get chronic migraine headaches and the smell of scented candles will give me a migraine almost instantly. I know there are unscented ones around, but somehow I just stopped buying them. Well…
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20 Easy Handmade Gift Ideas with concrete! Tutorials for making these unique gifts for the holidays or any occasion. Are you wondering what to make for someone to give as a gift? Are you a concrete enthusiast? Whether it’s for Christmas, a birthday, housewarming or for a hostess gift, here are 20 unique ideas for what you can make, along with…
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Open bottles with this refrigerator mounted bottle opener. Catch multiple caps with a super strong magnet! We wanted to make these bottle openers as a thank you gift for some friends and family who provided some extra help for our rustic wedding- if you want to read about our DIY wedding story, you can see it here. They went the…
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How to make easy rustic wedding Pallet signs for your wedding, using a Repurposed wood pallet. This ended up being one of the things I enjoyed making the most for the wedding. For our wedding, my then fiancé (now husband), and I used pallet wood to make our rustic wedding signs. They came out great and added another fun element…
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How to make a rustic wedding window sign menu for your wedding reception. Keeping within the rustic theme of our wedding, I wanted to use an old window to use for the menu for our reception. Old windows are so charming, and this seemed to be a unique way to display the menu. I found an old window at a…
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These mini succulent planters are a spin on the Cement Balloon Planter I made! Color the concrete with cement Pigment for a vibrant contrast with the succulents. I loved making the DIY balloon planters so much that I wanted to make them again, but this time I wanted them to be darker to give a more dynamic color contrast between…
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Make your own cork garden labels that won’t fade! Mark your herbs this season, so next year you know what’s coming in. I’m the one doing the gardening, but since my husband does more of the cooking these days, I needed to make sure he knew which herb was which. We love using our own fresh herbs for cooking. It…
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Repurpose a cowboy boot vase and turn it into a real planter! I found this polyresin cowboy boot at a hobby store. It reminds me of our rustic wedding decor. It would have fit in perfectly. Apparently it is intended to be a vase. I wanted it as a planter so I drilled (more accurately, my husband drilled) a couple…
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Have you heard of a smudge pot? It makes such a cool planter! Behind my house is an old road, now a grassy, gravelly path that used to be part of the road I live on and is a main road running through my town. The road is historic and was once an Indian trail. In the early ’50s the…
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